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Road Trip!

Rivans, Maria
Road Trip!
A nostalgic jigsaw journey with a crazy coast-to-coast collage Includes images of great US and Canadian cities, plus a hop over the border to Tijuana, and details like: road maps, gas stations, roadsigns, cactus, redwoods , palm trees, moose, bears, deer, eagles, Golden Gate and Brooklyn Bridges, postcards, copy of On the Road, hubcabs, car parts, tools, motels, billboards, drive-thrus, drive-ins, diners, Mount Rushmore, national parks and bat...

CHF 36.90

Languishing

Keyes, Corey
Languishing
The inspiration behind The New York Times' most read, most shared, and most cited article of 2021. Do you feel demotivated and aimless?Are you running on empty?Is it hard to pinpoint what's wrong?This is an experience millions of us are struggling with, and until now, we've lacked the vocabulary to understand it. But Dr Corey Keyes has identified this feeling as languishing, and here he draws on the latest research and real-life case studies t...

CHF 35.50

International Courts versus Non-Compliance Mechanisms

Voigt, Christina / Foster, Caroline
International Courts versus Non-Compliance Mechanisms
The effective implementation of treaties is essential. This book examines the advantages of non-compliance mechanisms (NCMs) versus that of international courts and tribunals to support treaty fulfilment. It brings together globally-recognised names in international law, human rights law, environmental and climate change law, and trade law"--

CHF 195.00

Geophysical and Climate Hazards: A Very Short Introduction

McGuire, Bill
Geophysical and Climate Hazards: A Very Short Introduction
In this Very Short Introduction Bill McGuire explores the potential catastrophes facing our planet. Assessing both the probability of these events happening in the future, and our chances of survival, this new edition brings our understanding of global disasters and risk research up to date by using recent case studies from around the world.

CHF 16.50

The Choice of Odysseus

Van der Laan, Sarah
The Choice of Odysseus
The Choice of Odysseus demonstrates how the Odyssey provided Renaissance authors and readers with a poetic ethics for their age. Sarah Van der Laan reconstructs Renaissance readings of the Odyssey by Petrarch, Poliziano, Ariosto, Tasso, Spenser, Monteverdi, and Milton to recover a powerful Renaissance tradition of Odyssean epic.

CHF 149.00

Reading Mediated Life Narratives

Carlson, Amy
Reading Mediated Life Narratives
Calling attention to the unseen mediation and re-mediation of life narratives in online and physical spaces, this ground-breaking exploration uncovers the ever-changing strategies that authors, artists, publishers, curators, archivists and social media corporations adopt to shape, control or resist the auto/biographical in these texts. Concentrating on contemporary life texts found in the material book, museums, on social media and archives th...

CHF 139.00

Linguistics across Disciplinary Borders

Coats, Steven / Laippala, Veronika
Linguistics across Disciplinary Borders
This volume highlights the ways in which recent developments in corpus linguistics and natural language processing can engage with topics across language studies, humanities and social science disciplines. New approaches have emerged in recent years that blur disciplinary boundaries, facilitated by factors such as the application of computational methods, access to large data sets, and the sharing of code, as well as continual advances in tec...

CHF 155.00

The Good Robot

Drage, Eleanor / McInerney, Kerry
The Good Robot
What is good technology? Is 'good' technology even possible? And how can feminism help us work towards it? The Good Robot addresses these crucial questions through the voices of leading feminist thinkers, activists and technologists. Each thinker provides a snapshot of key challenges, questions and provocations in the field of feminism and technology. While the question of whether various AI and technological advances can be ethical is not ne...

CHF 38.50

The Good Robot

Drage, Eleanor / McInerney, Kerry
The Good Robot
What is good technology? Is 'good' technology even possible? And how can feminism help us work towards it? The Good Robot addresses these crucial questions through the voices of leading feminist thinkers, activists and technologists. Each thinker provides a snapshot of key challenges, questions and provocations in the field of feminism and technology. While the question of whether various AI and technological advances can be ethical is not ne...

CHF 109.00

On the Job

Akou, Heather
On the Job
Through a variety of archival documents, artefacts, illustrations, and references to primary and secondary literature, On the Job explores the changing styles, business practices, and lived experiences of the people who make, sell, and wear service-industry uniforms in the United States. It highlights how the uniform business is distinct from the fashion business, including how manufacturing developed outside of the typical fashion hubs such...

CHF 149.00

Mapping Middle-earth

Behrooz, Anahit
Mapping Middle-earth
In this cutting-edge study of Tolkien's most critically neglected maps, Anahit Behrooz examines how cartography has traditionally been bound up in facilitating power. Far more than just illustrations to aid understanding of the story, Tolkien's corpus of maps are crucial to understanding the broader narratives between humans and their political and environmental landscapes within his legendarium. Undertaking a diegetic literary analysis of t...

CHF 43.50

Old Materials, New Climate

Pranger, Susan
Old Materials, New Climate
Old Materials, New Climate: Traditional Building Materials in a Changing World is an accessible guidebook to better understand historic materials, how they were traditionally made, how they survived the test of time, and how changes in climate are now impacting these old materials in new ways.

CHF 55.90

Foundations of Data Science with Python

Shea, John M.
Foundations of Data Science with Python
Foundations of Data Science with Python introduces readers to the fundamentals of data science, including data manipulation and visualization, probability, statistics, and dimensionality reduction. Intended for engineers and scientists, it can be used by any who know computer programming.

CHF 275.00

Foundations of Data Science with Python

Shea, John M.
Foundations of Data Science with Python
Foundations of Data Science with Python introduces readers to the fundamentals of data science, including data manipulation and visualization, probability, statistics, and dimensionality reduction. Intended for engineers and scientists, it can be used by any who know computer programming.

CHF 115.00

Power and Urban Space in Pre-Modern Holland

Lesger, Clé
Power and Urban Space in Pre-Modern Holland
Cities and urban societies have many faces. In this study, the pre-modern cities of Holland are presented as arenas where power relations between social classes are expressed in a more or less permanent appropriation of physical space and through discursive strategies. The continuity of the power relations in the cities of Holland, spanning centuries, makes it urgent to look not only at the assumption of urban space as an expression of power r...

CHF 139.00

'Updatism' and the Understanding of Time and History

Pereira, Mateus Henrique de Faria / Araujo, Valdei Lopes de
'Updatism' and the Understanding of Time and History
This book enables us to understand the current transformations in the experience of time that have been taking place in recent decades. Mateus Henrique de Faria Pereira and Valdei Lopes de Araujo convincingly argue that we live in a time of 'Updatism', the temporal dimension that emerges in those societies imprisoned by the structures of infinite expansion, and that this Updatism has profound consequences for how we think about the past, the p...

CHF 139.00

The Russian Intelligentsia

Read, Christopher
The Russian Intelligentsia
The Russian Intelligentsia is the first single-volume history of a small but tremendously influential group of Russian intellectuals who achieved world renown in a variety of spheres. While previous accounts have addressed the history of individuals within this collective, Christopher Read offers the first explanation of the intelligentsia as a group. Read traces the vast debates that broke out between, and within, a multitude of intellectual ...

CHF 139.00

Psalms

Brenner-Idan, Athalya / Yee, Gale A.
Psalms
This unique volume on the Psalms is the final Hebrew Bible installment of the Texts@Contexts series. Each contribution provides a contextual reflection on a Psalm as chosen by the contributor. These contributions take account of the contributor's own personal context or the contexts of those around them, providing readings that are varied in geographical and lingustic scope, that reflect on pressing themes such as immigration, diversity, race,...

CHF 155.00